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added: *'Tlie medical men who have bedn chosen by M. 

 Pasteur to assist him in his work have not hesitated to practise 

 the antirabic inoculation on themselves, as a safeguard against 

 an accidental inoculation of the virus which they are constantly 

 handling. What greater proof can they give of their bona fide 

 convictions?" He showed that the mortality amongst the 

 cases treated remained below 1 per 100. ^*M. Pasteur will 

 soon publish foreign statistics from Samara, Moscow, St. 

 Petersburg, Odessa, Warsaw and Vienna: they are all abso- 

 lutely favourable. '' 



As it was insinuated that the laboratory of the Ecole Normale 

 kept its failures a secret, it was decided that the Annals of the 

 Pasteur Institute would publish a monthly list and bulletin of 

 patients under treatment. 



Vulpian, at another meeting (it was almost the last time he 

 was heard at the Academic de Medecine), said, a propos of what 

 he called an inexcusable opposition, **This new benefit adds 

 to the number of those which our illustrious Pasteur has already 

 rendered to humanity. . . . Our works and our names will soon 

 be buried under the rising tide of oblivion: the name and the 

 works of M. Pasteur will continue to stand on heights too great 

 to be reached by its sullen waves. '* Pasteur was much dis- 

 turbed by the noise of these discussions ; every post increased his 

 feverishness, and he spoke every morning of returning to Paris 

 to answer his opponents. 



It was a pitiful thing to note on his worn countenance the 

 visible signs of the necessity of the peace and rest offered by 

 this beautiful land of serene sunshine ; and to hear at the same 

 time a constant echo of those angry debates. Anonymous 

 letters were sent to him, insulting newspaper articles — all that 

 envy and hatred can invent; the seamy side of human nature 

 was being revealed to him. ''I did not know I had so many 

 enemies, ' ^ he said mournfully. He was consoled to some extent 

 by the ardent support of the greatest medical men in France. 



Yulpian, in a statement to the Academic des Sciences, con- 

 stituted himself Pasteur's champion. Pasteur indeed was safe 

 from attacks in that centre, but certain low slanderers who 

 attended the public meetings of the Academic continued to 

 accuse Pasteur of concealing the failures of his method. Vulpian 

 — ^who was furiously angry at such an insinuation against *'a, 

 man like M. Pasteur, whose good faith, loyalty and scientific 

 integrity should be an example to his adversaries as they are to 



